CHAP. XLIV. How to lay the patient after the stone is taken away.
ALL things which we have recited being faithfully and diligently per∣formed, the patient shall be placed in his bed, laying under him as it were a pillow filled with bran, or oate chaffe, to drinke up the urine which floweth from him. You must have divers of these pillowes, that they may bee changed as neede shall require. Sometimes after the drawing forth of the stone, the bloud in great quantity falleth into the Cod, which unlesse * 1.1 you be carefull to provide against, with discussing, drying, and consuming medicines, it is to be feared, that it may gangrenate. Wherefore if any accidents happen in cu∣ring these kinde of wounds, you must diligently withstand them. After some few daies a warme injection shall be cast into the bladder by the wound, consisting of the waters of plantain, night-shade & roses, with a little syrupe of dried roses. It wil help to temper the heat of the bladder caused both by the wound and contusion, as also by the violent thrusting in of the instruments. Also it sometimes happens, that af∣ter the drawing forth of the stone, clots of bloud and other impurity may fall into the urenary passage, and so stop the urine that it cannot flow forth. Therefore you must in like sort put a hollow probe for some daies into the urethra, that keeping the passage open, all the grosser filth may flow out together with the urine.